I often use them for practice and I am teaching my great niece to sew and they come in handy there. You could always give them to a quilt group. Some of the charities use all sorts of fabric, including denim.

Turn them into patchwork handbags, wallets, jackets, etc. The different textures are interesting. Also, the local chapter of my quilting guild is making autistic blankets. These are blankets of different "touchy" fabrics, with 12" squares. The different textures help soothe autistic children.

------"Play the cards you are dealt, but choose who is sitting at the table"..AARP magazine

Go to the "search board" heading and search the message board for "scraps." I knew we had a few threads here about it,but there are tons! We are such a creative and thrifty bunch.

I recently found a new use for mine - I cut up a bunch of sparkly and shiny scraps and took them in to the toddler daycare where I work. We put them in a big bin for the children to look at, feel and play with. I am training some future fabric fondlers.

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